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Is the county-town; it is situated in a valley, on a dry gravelly soil, surrounded on all sides, except the North by the Ouze, over which it has three stone bridges. It is distant 57 miles North West of London, and is bounded on the West by Tingwick and Ratclifte, North by Moreton, North East by Tho

Thornborough has been a farming community since before the Domesday Book, where it is recorded that in the manor there was land for 11 ploughs, or oxen teams, and a meadow for 4 ploughs. Thornborough parish had two large fields, East or Thornton Field, and West or Padbury Field, divided into strips

Thornborough Parish (Pop. 673)
Two small Daily Schools, in which 7 boys and 5 girls are instructed at the expense of their parents.
Three Sunday Schools, one with 35 males and 20 females, who attend the Established Church; another consists of 10 males and 20 females, attached to Wesleyan Metho

BUCKINGHAM HUNDRED
From Sheahan 1861:
The hundred of Buckingham, which is situated on the north-western verge of the county, is bounded on the N. and N.E. by Nothamptionshire; on the E. by the hundreds of Newport and Cottesloe; on the S and S.E. by Ashendon hundred; and on the W. by the county of

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